A comprehensive review on microbial fuel cell technologies: Processes, utilization, and advanced developments in electrodes and membranes

G Palanisamy, HY Jung, T Sadhasivam… - Journal of cleaner …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells have gained great interest as an alternative energy conversion system
for generating bioenergy. As a bioelectrochemical hybrid system, microbial fuel cells …

Oxygen reduction reaction catalysts used in microbial fuel cells for energy-efficient wastewater treatment: a review

H Yuan, Y Hou, IM Abu-Reesh, J Chen, Z He - Materials Horizons, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) as an energy-efficient wastewater treatment technology have
attracted increasing interest in the past decade. Cathode catalysts for the oxygen reduction …

Silver nanoparticles in aquatic environments: Physiochemical behavior and antimicrobial mechanisms

C Zhang, Z Hu, B Deng - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Nanosilver (silver nanoparticles or AgNPs) has unique physiochemical properties and
strong antimicrobial activities. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the …

Enhanced cathodic oxygen reduction and power production of microbial fuel cell based on noble‐metal‐free electrocatalyst derived from metal‐organic frameworks

S You, X Gong, W Wang, D Qi, X Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) can generate electricity from organic substances based on anodic
electrochemically active microorganisms and cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Strategies for optimizing the power output of microbial fuel cells: transitioning from fundamental studies to practical implementation

S Chen, SA Patil, RK Brown, U Schröder - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Microbial electrochemical technologies, such as microbial fuel cells (MFCs), are attracting
extraordinary attention due to their dual functions of waste removal and energy production …

Oxygen reduction reaction on silver catalysts in alkaline media: a minireview

H Erikson, A Sarapuu, K Tammeveski - ChemElectroChem, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of efficient platinum‐free catalysts for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction
reaction (ORR) is one of the main challenges in the fuel cell research. Silver‐based …

Recent progress and perspectives in microbial fuel cells for bioenergy generation and wastewater treatment

FJ Hernández-Fernández, AP De Los Ríos… - Fuel Processing …, 2015 - Elsevier
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use bacteria to convert the chemical energy of a particular
substrate contained in wastewater into electrical energy. This is achieved when bacteria …

The integrated processes for wastewater treatment based on the principle of microbial fuel cells: a review

L Xu, Y Zhao, L Doherty, Y Hu, X Hao - Critical Reviews in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
abstract Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology offers the dual advantages of wastewater
treatment and electricity generation. Research efforts have been made to improve its power …

Biofouling effects on the performance of microbial fuel cells and recent advances in biotechnological and chemical strategies for mitigation

MT Noori, MM Ghangrekar, CK Mukherjee… - Biotechnology advances, 2019 - Elsevier
The occurrence of biofouling in MFC can cause severe problems such as hindering proton
transfer and increasing the ohmic and charge transfer resistance of cathodes, which results …

Dairy wastewater as a potential feedstock for valuable production with concurrent wastewater treatment through microbial electrochemical technologies

A Ganta, Y Bashir, S Das - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
A milk-processing plant was drafted as a distinctive staple industry amid the diverse field of
industries. Dairy products such as yogurt, cheese, milk powder, etc., consume a huge …